Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-380) and index

Auguries -- Man of action and a passionate woman -- Adventure real and imagined -- Two rival mothers -- Still water -- Fear of freedom and the lure of suicide -- Reasonable marriage -- Reality of marriage and the precarious suspension of disbelief -- Call of the wild -- Travesty of marriage - Petit Jules -- Becoming Sand -- Paris from the provinces -- Exquisite dissection -- Exploring another self -- Musset and madness -- Pagello, Paris, and politics -- Maurice's notorious mother -- Form the real to the sublime -- Creativity and compromise -- History past, present, and future -- Eden -- Son and lover -- Communion

Follows Sand's life from her birth in 1804 through her work as a minister of Propaganda during the Revolution of 1848, her relationship with Chopin, and her work in the radical politics of her day

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